Tag: film
BFI Gothic: The dark heart of film
The British Film Institute programmes seasons at the Southbank Centre London and special events around the UK often. It’s a key part of what they do, and they do it well. However, BFI Gothic is by far the most exciting season of screenings and events I’ve been witness to. The UK wide celebration of film…
You’ve Been Trumped: Documenting Donald Trump’s Scottish Incursion
The title could just about sum up this blood-boiling 2011 documentary directed by Anthony Baxter and produced and co-written by Richard Phinney, a festival fave finally released on DVD a few months ago. At face value, it’s a gritty, ground-level film witness to Donald Trump’s unsubtle tactics in pushing through plans to build an enormous…
Stanley Kubrick: Remembering the past, present, future, and the eternal return of the family in four films
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick may have been correct in assigning Richard Strauss to the apes and Johann Strauss to the spacemen. Standing somewhere in the middle of this evolution, I wonder which creature has it worse, the screeching primate or the cosmic amphibian. Certainly, our robotic dullard of the future could…
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Halloween Horrors: 13 Zombie Classics
Tomorrow marks the dawn of Halloween, a celebration that I was never entirely privy to as an Australian child. Each year its arrival was made apparent, not by the marching of costumed children through the streets, but by the sudden avalanche of American Halloween television specials that poured through the small screen into our living…